JRuby: State of the Art

JRuby has made Ruby on the JVM a reality. It has also opened up a whole new world of opportunities to Ruby and Rails developers. Built atop a world-class VM, JRuby has an easier path to excellent performance. The ability to access Java libraries expands Ruby’s reach and potential. And the lack of agility in the old-school, “enterprisey” Java world means real opportunities for Ruby and Rails developers. JRuby is here to stay.

Since last year, JRuby usage has grown tremendously. We’ve also published more than a dozen releases, fixed hundreds of bugs, and committed thousands of revisions. In this session we’ll update you on JRuby performance in real applications, show you what real people are using it for like GUIs and games, and demonstrate how JRuby is improving the Ruby world.

People planning to attend this session also want to see:

Charles Nutter

Engine Yard, Inc

Charles Oliver Nutter co-leads the JRuby project and is one of the three core developers. He joined Sun Microsystems in September 2006 and has since worked to improve and advance JRuby and other dynamic language support on the JVM. Charles has developed in Java for the past decade as well as having written Windows and .NET applications. Before coming to Sun, Charles was a lead Java EE architect, and now hopes to make dynamic languages ready for enterprise Java platform development.

Thomas Enebo

Engine Yard, Inc.

Thomas is a core developer of the JRuby project and he is also an employee of Sun Microsystems. Tom has been using Java for over a decade and Ruby over half a decade. At Sun, he is working to make JRuby a piece of software that will capture the hearts and minds of Ruby and Java developers everywhere. Tom is also working to make Ruby a first-class citizen on the JVM. Tom, along with Charles Nutter, will be writing a book on JRuby this year.

Comments on this page are now closed.

Comments

Conrad Taylor

05/11/2009 12:48am PDT

Great talk on the current state and the future of JRuby.

John Woodell

05/07/2009 1:58am PDT

Great talk. Nice to see how effortlessly Ruby 1.9 is supported. Thanks for getting the JRuby 1.3 release ready.

Amit Kazmirsky

05/05/2009 4:10pm PDT

Really good, had a natural flow with the right amount of “live” examples.

Donald French

05/05/2009 3:44pm PDT

Great session provided enough information to peak an interest in using jRuby.